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July 4, 2017

‘Desperate’ Congress stooping to new low, insulting Indian Army regularly

Hitting out at Congress for its remark on India-China standoff in the
border, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday said that the latter has
been regularly insulting the Indian Army by raising such points.

Congress
in a press conference in the capital had accused the Modi government of
“caught napping” as the reports of incursion by Chinese army at the
border surface.

Speaking to media, Union HRD Minister Prakash
Javadekar condemned Congress for targeting Centre by insulting army by
raising such comments. “Today in their press conference Congress raised
questions about what is happening on the Indo-China border. Earlier the
asked to prove the authenticity of the surgical strikes,” he said.

Adding
further, the minister said that asking for proof for the surgical
strike is insulting the “brave soldiers who participated in the strike”
across the border at the militants’ launch pads sponsored by Pakistan.
“Earlier they called names to the Army Chief, they not only insulted the
Army Chief but they insulted the entire Indian Army,” Javadekar
asserted.

Taking a dig at the Congress, Javadekar said that the
comments from them are acts of “desperation” as the party that ruled
India for over 50 years has “stooped so low that they are making
politics out of foreign policy and defence policy.”

Javadekar
said that the Indian Army deployed on India-China border is working
despite harsh conditions and the Congress is insulting them. “Comments
from Congress are condemnable and everybody will condemn this kind of
insult to the Army and the forces,” he added.

Earlier Congress
spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi had slammed the Centre and called
Modi govt of having “a reluctant Defence Minister” to a “part-time
Defence Minister” referring the exit of Manohar Parrikar to take charge
as Goa CM and Arun Jaitley getting Defence as an additional portfolio to
his existing Finance Ministry. “Unfortunately, it appears the
government has been caught napping and has not been able to implement
significant accords of recent origin,” he added, reports ANI.

Delhi
and Beijing have been interlocked in a series of confrontation along
the border in a disputed territory between China and Bhutan.